During the Great Depression, views of community activities funded by a collective "community chest." Boys in knickers playing basketball, girls in a swimming pool and boy scouts practicing a first aid "chair carry" for an injured scout. Another scout holds a rifle during the exercise. Boy Scouts standing in a line salute and then stand at attention position. Views of a hospital, a patient on a stretcher, doctors around the stretcher. Doctors and nurses operating on a patient in a surgery theater. Women on a sidewalk smile and hand out ribbons and flowers, possibly collecting donations. A well dressed man speaks in an auditorium. Young preschool age children play in a park next to a tricycle and sandbox. A young preschool age girl hugs a boy and three youngsters walk toward an attending nun on the playground. A poster with a boy's face on it reads "Relief and human service through our community chest."
U.S. Army Curtiss B-2 Condor bombers being used for humanitarian purpose. Food being packed into the airplanes and delivered to snow bound Navajo Native American Indian people in Arizona. Men load bags of food in a plane. Men look at a map and chart the route with the help of an Indian guide. Aircraft in flight over a snowy region. Shadows of the planes visible on the snow. On the ground, food is distributed to the Navajo families.
U.S. Lieutenant James Doolittle creates a world record in Cleveland, Ohio. Spectators seated in the stands. Lt. James Doolittle in flight and sets a new record of 293 mph in the trials of the Thompson contest at the National Air Races. Lt. Doolittle in front of his plane. A parachutist jumps from the plane. The chute opens and in flight. The parachutist lands safely. A delayed parachute jump. Johnnie Miller of Poughkeepsie performs loops in an autogiro (blend of airplane and early helicopter).
Communist mob protest at Civic Center to lay their relief demands before Mayor Walker in New York. They show banners. Policemen on horses scatter the crowd.
A team of miners enters the Pocahontas Fuel Company Coal Mine in Boissevain, Virginia, following a tragic explosion that killed 38 miners. They descend on a platform elevator, and return again after a short while. Large crowd of mourners standing around the mine entrance. A truck carrying large wooden coffins moves along the road. Two boys read funeral plans for individual miners written on a blackboard at side of church building. Dollie Phipps (wife of JL Phipps) and children Harry, Preston and Mack sit outside the church.
A man at the world's largest goose herd bred for epicures in Santee, California. Goose eat their food. Hilly terrain in the background. Two men feed the birds.